Osaka – Exploring and Discovering Luigi Pirandello, through the analysis of his works and a focus on his biography: this is the aim of the seminar ‘Pirandello, a difficult author?’ organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Osaka and scheduled for Saturday, July 8 at 5PM. To report on Pirandello and his works will be Naomi Takeya, ordinary professor of Italian literature at the University of Arts in Osaka. In 1992, with the translation of “L’Arte del convito nella Roma antica” by Eugenia Salza Ricotti, she won the Pico della Mirandola Prize (Italian Institute of Culture) and in 2011 she edited and translated ‘Sicily through Sicilian tales: Verga, De Roberto, Pirandello, Vittorini, Brancati, Tomasi of Lampedusa and Sciascia’. In 2015 she won the Collegium Mediterranistarum Prize, for having opened up new perspectives for Italian literary studies in Japan, which from the Meiji era on had mainly focused on Center and Northern Italy authors, and in 2016 she was awarded the Iue Prize For the contribution given to Italian-Japanese cultural exchanges through the presentation of Italian culture. (9colonne)
